An organisation established to promote the {Scalable Processor ARChitecture} (SPARC). Their main service is conformance testing. They also produce the "SPARC flash" newsletter and publish lists of SPARC compliant machines tested by SPARC International to be binary compatiblewith other compliant machines. Start . SPARC(R) is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. (1995-01-04)